BIOLOGY MYP 3

Formative Assessment (TASK 2)

Ecosystem and Evolution

Date: 11/11/2019

Most of what we use in our daily lives comes directly or indirectly from natural resources.
Beyond those we have already mentioned, what are some other products that come from or
contain natural resources?

Make a copy of table 1.1. Research in order to find out how people get access to the
following natural resources: fossil fuel, plants, animals or uses of them. Indicate whether the
natural resources is renewable or non renewable. Be sure to cite the sources of your
information.

Hint:

Try starting your search with products made from a resource, or uses of it. For example, you
could search for products made from minerals, or uses of water.

Once you have completed your research, complete the last column about the consequences of
using each natural resource. What happens to the environment as a result of people getting
access to the natural resource? What are the possible political, economic or cultural effects?

Natural How people get How it is used Renewable or Consequences of

resource access to it? ( specific examples) non- renewable? using the natural
resource
Water Using pumps to Drinking, cooking, hygiene Surface water (like
get it from (Showering, brushing teeth), lakes and rivers) is
underground washing and cleaning, renewable;
wells; collecting it irrigating crops, groundwater under
from lakes or hydroelectric power. the surface of the
rivers; collecting it earth is non-
from rains; (from- renewable
collecting it from http://water.usgs.gov/edu/wu (from-
the ocean and do.html) www.fao.org/docrep/
removing it from 005/y4473e/y4473e06
the salt. .htm)